Still ALIVE
Still CELEBRATING
Still TAKING IT ALL "ONE DAY AT A TIME" thanks Marie
Today was a good day ... I didn't die, I didn't burst into flames (no matter how many flames I could see burning around me) or even better than not bursting into flames I didn't smoke. I didn't even think about smoking.
In fact I actually learned something ... and that had to do with how for so many years, 36 to be exact, I could actually cave into whatever was happening around me by smoking. The fatal addict behaviour of thinking I could control whatever was going on around me by chemically altering my state. Well today I got to choose something different. Something totally different than what I would do as a child smoking at 13 years old under all kinds of peer pressure. Something totally different than what I would do as an adult: afraid, brow beaten, put down, pushed aside, bullied. Today was different I didn't smoke I just held my head up high and continued on my way as a person who simply is not a smoker.
Thanks Rusty for the quote below. I hope you haven't taken yourself out completely, your support, care and voice have been invaluable to me.
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
attributed to:
(Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
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More celebration tomorrow and through to the rolling around of the calendar.February 17th just around the corner.
Cheers see you all tomorrow
Phillip
:)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]2/17/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 725
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,125
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $6,162.50
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 122 [B]Hrs:[/B] 22 [B]Mins:[/B] 7 [B]Seconds:[/B] 27